Among Feldman's conclusions: "It's time we
remove incentives encouraging criminals to use, rather than avoid, guns."

In a Dec. 15 email to the Executive Directors of Drug Policy Alliance, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, NORML, and the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation on Dec. 15, Feldman elaborated:

"It's time we
remove incentives encouraging criminals to use, rather than avoid, guns" The incentives I
refer to are of course that guns are the main only option
when dealing in black market goods - no call to 911 if stolen, no use of the
courts for product distribution or supply dislocation - only the ability to use
force, and that force is mainly from the barrel of a gun.Let me be blunt: The
organized firearm community has a vested interest in this [drug legalization] movement even if many
of the established organizations don't! IFOA supports [drug] legalization
because it makes sense and lowers harm.

A key point of Feldman's was confirmed -- without any acknowledgement of the significance of the data -- in The Washington Post, (Dec. 14, 2013). Twenty-four percent of all the children under 10 deliberately shot and killed with a firearm in 2012 was killed due to "random violence, drive-by shootings, and neighborhood gun battles." That sounds like killings associated with the drug trade!